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14Jun | 2011

The Target black dress transformation

Posted by Joy | under Sewing . Upcycle | 12 Comments

I love little black dresses! so when I saw this long XL dress for only $7.00 at Target I knew I had to transform it! But since all dresses are different I decided not to make a tutorial of how I made mine, but explain what lead me to decide what would be the better way to transform it, to fit the shape and size [...]

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16Apr | 2011

Upcycled Summer Dress – Second version

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Upcycle | 8 Comments

Last year I was lucky enough to find a 6XL men shirt in my local thrift store and I felt like I won the lottery because I had the perfect shirt to make a dress for myself (I am 5 11″ so it’s hard to upcycle from just one shirt) Well, that happened again this past week =] I found a really cute plaid blue [...]

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16Nov | 2010

Tiffany’s dress – yes another dress!

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Upcycle | 6 Comments

Remember a couple of weeks a go when I showed Beth’s dresses, the jacket and my Halloween dress? Well, there was more I did that week and finally this past weekend I got to take pictures of one of them! Tiffany’s dress. She asked me to make a pretty dress to attend her cousins wedding and of course I said yes! We look at different [...]

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11Nov | 2010

Ruffles handbag tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 16 Comments

I know I teased a lot with this tutorial, mostly because I made it so long a go, 4 months a go to be exact. I took the pictures the week I moved this little blog to wordpress. Since things got so busy after that I almost forgot I had it, until just a few weeks back. And finally today I have time to write [...]

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31Oct | 2010

Halloween Wedding Dress

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Upcycle | 18 Comments

I normally don’t blog on weekends, but I though I should make an exception since last week I end up being super silent. The reason: 3 dresses for weddings, 2 Halloween costumes for friends, a jacket for a groom, and my own Halloween costume. I was so busy sewing that I forgot to take pictures of process – I know! Bad blogger! But I can [...]

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